Colombia at the Paralympics
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NPC | Colombian Paralympic Committee | ||||||||
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Colombia made its Paralympic Games début at the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, with competitors taking part in track and field, table tennis and wheelchair basketball. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, except 1984, but has never entered the Winter Paralympics.[1]
Colombians have won a total of twenty three medals at the Paralympic Games: three gold, eight silver and twelve bronze. Pedro Mejía won the country's first medals when he took a gold and a bronze in swimming in 1980. His winning time of 1:27.88 in the final of the 100m breaststroke, D category, set a new world record. Colombia had to wait 28 years for its next two medals, which both came in the 2008 Games. Elkin Serna ran the men's marathon in 2:31:16 in the T12 category for athletes with severe visual disability, finishing less than a minute behind Chinese athlete Qi Shun's world record time of 2:30:32, and took silver. Moisés Fuentes won bronze in the men's 100m breaststroke in the SB4 category.[2] 2016 Summer Paralympics represented the best performance by the Colombian comitee in the history of the Summer Paralympics, with a total amount of 17 medals won.
List of medallists
Medal | Name | Games | Sport | Event |
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![]() | Pedro Mejía | 1980 Arnhem | Swimming | Men's 100 metre Breaststroke D |
![]() | Carlos Daniel Serrano | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Swimming | Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB7 |
![]() | Mauricio Valencia | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Athletics | Men's javelin throw F34 |
![]() | Elkin Serna | 2008 Beijing | Athletics | Men's Marathon T12 |
![]() | Moisés Fuentes | 2012 London | Swimming | Men's 100 metre Breaststroke SB4 |
![]() | Elkin Serna | 2012 London | Athletics | Men's Marathon T12 |
![]() | Nelson Crispín | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Swimming | Men's 50 metre freestyle S6 |
![]() | Fernando Lucumí Villegas | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Athletics | Men's Javelin Throw F38 |
![]() | Nelson Crispín | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Swimming | Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB6 |
![]() | Carlos Daniel Serrano | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Swimming | Men's 100 metre freestyle S7 |
![]() | Nestor Crispín | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Swimming | Men's 100 metre freestyle S6 |
![]() | Pedro Mejía | 1980 Arnhem | Swimming | Men's 100 metre Backstroke C-D |
![]() | Moisés Fuentes | 2008 Beijing | Swimming | Men's 100 metre Breaststroke SB4 |
![]() | Martha Hernández | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Athletics | Women's 100 metre T36 |
![]() | Carlos Daniel Serrano | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Swimming | Men's 50 metre Butterfly S7 |
![]() | Diego Dueñas | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Cycling | Men's individual pursuit C4 |
![]() | Edwin Matiz | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Cycling | Men's individual pursuit C5 |
![]() | Mauricio Valencia | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Athletics | Men's shot put F34 |
![]() | Moisés Fuentes | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Swimming | Men's 100 metre breaststroke SB4 |
![]() | Women's relay team Colombia | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Athletics | Women's 4x100 metre Relay T11-13 |
![]() | Néstor Javier Ayala | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Cycling | Men's Road Race T1-2 |
![]() | Maritza Arango | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Athletics | Women's 1500 metre - T11 |
![]() | Weiner Javier Díaz | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Athletics | Men's 400 metre - T38 |
See also
References
- ↑ Colombia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
- ↑ Colombia at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
External links
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